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IDWAY PLAISAN'CE was the name given by the 
founders of the South Park system of Chicago (as 
distinguished from the North Park system and the 
West Park system, each of these being under the 
control of independent boards of park commissioners) 
to a strip of wooded land one mile in length, east and 
west, and six hundred feet in width, through which 
a narrow roadway had been cut, connecting the two great parks of the 
south division of the city, — Jackson (at present the site of the World's 
Columbian Exposition) on the east, and Washington on the west. The 
word "plaisance" as used in this connection signifies " pleasure way," 
and as such it was accepted and used by Chicago people up to the com- 
mencement of preparatory work upon the World's Fair. The drive had 
much the appearance of a country lane, was well shaded with maples 
and young elm trees, and during the summer months was quite popular 
among pleasure seekers of all classes, being generally crowded in the 
evening with vehicles of every description, from the humble family 
carryall to the pretentious Victoria and the spectacular four-in-hand 
coach. It is unnecessary to say that Midway Plaisance has undergone 
a complete metamorphosis. The stranger cannot realize the radical 
character of the transformation as well as the resident, for the Plaisance 
of to-day makes no outward sign of its ever having been anything other 
than it is — a highway of the nations. The country lane has been super- 
seded by a well-paved boulevard, 150 feet in width; the maples and 
young elm trees have disappeared to make room for Irish, German, 
Turkish, Austrian, Chinese, Japanese, Dahomey, Javanese and Indian 
villages, castles, towers, pavilions, pagodas, mosques, and a display of 
oriental and occidental architecture more varied than was ever witnessed 
by man before within the limits of a morning's promenade. Something 
of the kind had been attempted in Paris at the last two universal exposi- 
tions held in that city, a portion of the Champ de Mars having been 
devoted to similar displays, but in comparison with Midway Plaisance 
these were simply attempts. If the attractions of Midway Plaisance 
were stretched out in a straight line they would extend a distance of no 
less than six miles. 

The map which accompanies this guide gives a perfect idea of the 
arrangement and grouping of these peculiar exhibits, and the pages 
Avhich follow, it is hoped, will render equally valuable assistance to the 
visitor with regard to the exhibits themselves. 

The map and guide are revised to August 10, 1893, and may be 
accepted as being absolutely correct. 



Official Guide 



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MIDWAY PLAISANCE 

y 

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 

"The Highzuay Through 
The Nations.' 

BROUGHT DOWN TO AUGUST io, 1893. 



WITH AN ABSOLUTELY CORRECT MAP 



AND 



NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 



ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN 

EXPOSITION. 




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Chicago : 
THE COLUMBIAN GUIDE COMPANY, / (^ 

administration building, 
World's Columbian Exposition. 



COPYRIGHTED BY THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 



DIRECTORY OF ATTRACTIONS. 

FOR MAP, SEE PAGES 24 AND 25. 









[Ollicial guide numbers, in plain figures, are displayed conspicuously 
on all of the Midway Plaisance exhibits. These numbers begin at the 
right-hand side and end at the left-hand side of the eastern (World's 
Fair) entrance. Thus, the exhibit of the Diamond Match Co. is "No. 1," 
and Lady Aberdeen's Irish Industrial Village and Blarney Castle is 
' No. 63." The visitor by referring to corresponding numbers in the 
guide will obtain the information desired. It is proper to take the right- 
hand side of the Plaisance in making the round trip.] 

ATTRACTIONS. 
[Going West, Right=Hand Side.] 

ADHISSION 

Diamond Match Co.'s exhibit Free 

Workingmen's Home Free 

International Dress Costume Co., or "Congress of 

Beauty" 25 cts 

California Nursery Free 

Electric Scenic Theater 25 cts 

Libbey Glass Works 10 cts 

Irish Village, Donegal Castle 25 cts 

Japanese Bazar Free 

<j Javanese Village 10 cts 

1 " Theater 25 cts 

( German Village Free 

} " " Museum 15 cts 

( " " Concert Garden 25 cts 

Pompeii Panorama 25 cts 

Street in Cairo ,__15ets 

" « Theatre 25 to 75 cts 

" " " Tombs 10 ets 

" " " Temple 25 ets 

" " " Soudanese Huts 10 ets 

" " " Conjurer 25 cts 

Persian Theater 50 cts 



NO. 
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Eiffel Tower Model..-. 25 cts 

Ferris Wheel (two trips) 50 cts 

\ Algerian and Tunisian Village Free 

1 " " " Theater 25 and 50 ets 

Vienna Cafe Free 

East Indian Palace Free 

Kilauea Panorama 50 ets 

American Indian Village 25 cts 

Chinese Village 10 ets 

" Theater and Joss House 25 cts 

^Captive Balloon, Concert Park Free 

I « " Ascension $2.00 

Brazil Concert Hall 25 cts 

California Ostrich Farm 10 cts 

Sitting Bull's Log Cabin 10 cts 

Military Camping Grounds --Free 









DIRECTORY OF ATTRACTIONS— Continued. 



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[Going East, Right- Hand Side.] 

ADHISSION. 

Ottoman's Arab Camp, or "Wild East Show" 25 cts 

Hungarian Cafe, Concert Garden Free 

Lapland Village 25 cts 

Dahomey Village 25 cts 

Austrian Village 25 cts 

French Cider Press Free 

Ice Railway, Per Two Trips 10 cts 

Model of St. Peter's 25 cts 

Parisian Crystal Works 10 cts 

Tree of Wonder (Camera Obscura) 10 cts 

f Moorish Palace, Restaurant and Concert Hall --Ff'CC 

" " Theater 25 cts 

" " Labyrinth and Wax Works 25 cts 

" " Execution of Marie Antoinette. 10 cts 

" " Optical Illusion 1 5 cts 

en Cafe Free 

Turkish Village, Carpet Weaving Exhibit . Free 

Turkish Sedan Chairs (Make Terms Beforehand) . 

Turkish Restaurant and Dance Hall 25 els 

Bedouin Arab Concert Hall --15cts 

Turkish Cafe Free 

Persian Tent (Fortune Teller) 25 els 

Turkish Bazaar : Free 

Turkish Theater 50 cts 

Bernese Alps Panorama 50 cts 

\ Vienna Cafe Natatorium 50 cts 

) l< Restaurant and Concert Rooms Free 

jahore Village 25 cts 

Java Lunch Room Free 

South Sea Island Village 10 cts 

" " " Theater 25 cts 

Hagenbeck Animal Show, Seats 25 cts to $1.00 

" Museum 25 cts 

" Cafe Free 

Venice Murano Glass Co 25 cts 

Diving Bell Exhibit _ 10 C?s 

Old Times Log Cabin 10 cts 

New England Farmers' Dinner Free 

Colorado Gold Mine Exhibit ... 10 cts 

French Fruit Tree Exhibit Free 

Wisconsin Evergreen Exhibit Free 

Wisconsin Cranberry Marsh Free 

Elgin Plant Exhibit Free 

Orange Judd Farmer Weed Exhibit Free 

Adams Express Company Exhibit Free 

Lady Aberdeen's Irish Industrial Village and Blar- 
ney Castle 25 cts 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 

Many of the so-called guide books sold on trains, train plat- 
forms, peddler stands, news stands or by street agents are 
simply catch-penny publications, are misleading and unreli- 
able, and if purchased will have to be flung aside, thus caus- 
ing a litter on the exposition grounds. The only guides 
authorized by the Exposition management are those com- 
piled by John J. Flinn, and published by the Columbian Guide 
Company, Administration Building, "World's Columbian Ex- 
position. These are as follows : 

Official Guide, Hand Book Edition, Leatherette Cover 25 cents. 

Official Guide, Popular Edition, Cloth Cover 50 cents. 

Official Guide, Souvenir, Edition, Cloth, Gilt Top One Dollar. 

Official Guide, German Edition, paper 25 cents. 

"The Best Things to be Seen at the World's Fair, an 

Official Guide, beautifully bound 50 cents. 

Official Guide to'Midway Plaisance, paper 10 cents. 



The Safest way is to buy only the Official Guide Books 
bearing the signature of 

B. N. HIGINBOTHAM, 

PRESIDENT. 



THE OFFICIAL GUIDE 



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riidway Plaisance or the Highway Through 

The Nations. 



[NOTE TO VISITORS.— Beginning at the right of Eastern Entrance, after passing 
under subway, the visitor will observe the Official Guide Numbers posted conspicuously 
on the various exhibits. Those numbers correspond with the numbers given in this book. 
The map which accompanies the Guide will also serve to make the way clear. The visitor 
is supposed to walk to the right during the entire trip, but the Guide may be referred to at 
any point on either side. The numbers on the exhibits being consecutive are described 
accordingly.] 



FOR MAP, SEE PAGES 24 AND 25. 



DIAMOND MATCH COHPANY'S 
EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 1. No admission fee. 

An exhibit, in a building con- 
structed for the purpose, of the 
method pursued in the manufacture 
of Diamond (a special brand) 
matches. lhe process of manufac- :^^^f l |^^^^^| 
ture is sho \ n from the raw mater- ^||§p plT^ 
ial to the finished product. Matches L - 
made here are sold as souvenirs. 
An interesting exhibit and worthy gf|p I M ifC 
of a visit. 




DIAMOND MATCH Hl'ILDIXO 



Official Guide No. 2. 



WORKINGflEN'S HOME. 

No admission fee. 



Mr. George Washington Childs, of Philadelphia, proprietor of the 
Philadelphia Ledger and a philanthropist of national renown, has for 

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years given much of his attention to the betterment of the working 
classes. He has erected or has assisted in the erection of hundreds of 
cottages. 'J he one exhibited here is a model of the most approved style 
of workingmen's homes yet devised. It will interest not only the labor- 
ing classes but all persons interested in social economics. 



INTERNATIONAL DRESS AND COSTUME EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 3. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

One of the most novel and interesting exhibits on the Plaisance. 
The International Dress and Costume Company, (\V. G. Press, presi- 




TIIE BEAUTY SHOW BUILDING. 

dent; J. A. Edwards, vice-president and manager; W. M. Knox, secre- 
tary), proprietors. This exhibit is known also as " The Congress of 
Beauty," but more familiarly as " The Beauty Show." It occupies a 
large and handsome structure and has pleasant surroundings. Its di- 
mensions are 48x145 feet, two stories high, and is covered with staff like 
all the other Exposition buildings, thus having the appearance of being 
built of white marble. In front are lawns and graveled walks. From 
numerous flag-poles on the building float the colors of as many nations. 
The interior of the building truly presents a scene of splendor. One 
enters 

A Great liall gaily decorated with multi-colored bunting and the 
Bags of different nations. The windows are all darkened, and electric 



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light illumines the hall by day as well as night. Around three sides of 
the room is a dais, carpeted and divided by polished brass railing into 
booths for the beauties. Each 
booth is nicely furnished, and 
in a conspicuous place is a sat- 
in banner bearing the name of 
the country which the occupant 
represents. There are here ex- 
hibited forty representative or 
typical beauties of forty differ- 
ent nationalities. What do the 
beauties do? Well, the princi- 
pal things they do is to be looked 
at. Some do fancy work of 
one sort or another, some read, 



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"THE AMERICAN BEAUTY. 



some spin, make embroidery, 
or engage in other light occu- 
pation, such as they are accus- 
tomed to at home. Nearly all 
chat freely with the visitors, 
and answer the many questions 
which are propounded. They 



THE IRI SHBEAUTY. 

are paid a great many compli- 
ments, of course, and these they 
receive graciou -ly if they are 
offered courteously. Occasion- 
ally a dude or ill-mannered 
person receives a squelching, 
which generally causes him to 
make haste from the vicinity. 
At the end of the hall, opposite 
the entrance, is an oriental or 
harem scene in which there are 
five dark-eyed beauties loung- 
ing on divans, or otherwise disposed in accord with the languid h 




THE SCOTCH BEAUTY. 



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FATIMA, THE ORIENTAL BEAUTY. 



of the far East. Fatima, a regal beauty, is the "queen" of this booth, 
and occupies an exalted position in the center. 

The Costumes of the orientals are exceedingly gorgeous and rich. 

Three of the girls — an English, 
French, and American — wear 
Worth gowns. These naturally 
excite the enthusiastic admira- 
tion of all the visitors of the 
gentler sex. The gowns cost 
from $1,000 to $1,500 each, and 
are the finest that the famous 
Paris costumer could make. 
The material was ma e espec- 
ially for him and could not be 
duplicated elsewhere. This is 
Worth's only exhibit at the fair, 
he having declined a request 
from the French commission, 
and also one from Mrs. Potter 
Palmer, president of the board 
of lady managers, to make an exhibit in their departments. 

The Beauties enjoy themselves; they have a good time; they eat 
and sleep in the exhibit building, and have comfortable quarters and ex- 
cellent board, much better in fact than the public restaurants of the fair 
provide. They have their half days off, and are allowed to go and come 
under proper restrictions. So 
long as a girl acts in a lady- 
like and proper manner but lit- 
tle restriction is exercised over 
her. One would imagine that 
it would be a difficult task to 
manage so many pretty young 
women who are conscious of 
their attractions, and who, it is 
to be supp sed, have their jeal- 
ousies of each other. How- 
ever that may be, it seems to 
be done smoothly and satisfac- 
torily. The girls seem happy, 
and the visitors are certainly 
well pleased. Photographs of 
the beauties are sold as souven- 
irs. This exhibit has attracted hundreds of thousands of people, and it 
will continue to be one of the most pleasing features of the Plaisance. 




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THE CHINESE BEAUTY. 



TO MIDWAY PLAISANCK. 9 

CALIFORNIA NURSERY AND CITRUS TREE EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 4. No admission fee. 

Like the nursery exhibit directly opposite,, on the other side of the 
Plaisance, this is one of the outdoor displays made by the department 
of Horticulture of the Exposition. It consists of bearing orange and 
lemon trees, which show green and ripe fruit and blossoms all on the 
same trees, shaddocks and other fruit trees of various sorts. Many 
varieties of nut trees and numerous ornamentals, peculiarly adapted to 
California, add to this interesting exhibit. [To the rear of this display 
are closets.] 



ELECTRIC SCENIC THEATER. 

Official Guide No. 5. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

This is a spectacular view called " A Day In the Alps," showing 
some of the most wondrous and picturesque features of wild Alpine 
scenery. By an arrangement of electric lights realistic effects are 
produced, which give 
glimpses of the moun- 
tainous scenery in all 
the vary ingatmospheric 
change^ from dawn to 
twilight, from rosy 
morning to the black- 
ness of a stormy night. 
The curtain rises on the 
picture at night time, 
the firft rays of the sun 
are shown, which is ac- 
companied by that sight 
so wonderful to travel- 
ers, the Alpine Glowing. 
Appropriate music with 
Tyrolean warblers, add 
much to the enchant- 
ment of the picture, as the course of the sun up and down the heav- 
ens is followed. The orchestra is made up of excellent musicians. 
The entire 

Scenic Effects are produced by about 250 electric incandescent 
lamps, operated from in front of the stage, in full view of the audience, 
by switches. The lamps on the stage are arranged in sets of shades 
containing twelve lights each, in red, white and blue. These lights 
are controlled by thirty-six switches, and are worked through German 




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silver resistance coils. The interior of the theater is handsomely fur- 
nished with comfortable chairs. There are nine electric fans, produc- 
ing a permanent current of fresh air, keeping the whole room at a low- 
temperature and as refreshing as a sea breeze, it matters not how hot 
it mar be outside. A cut-glass chandelier hanging from the ceiling is 
a wonderfully artistic piece of work. It consists of about ioo electric 
lamps. The exterior of the theater has comfortable accomodations for 
visitors awaiting performances. Awnings and numerous chairs and 
benches offer a refreshing rest in the shade to those who are waiting 
for the beginning of the play. One child is admitted with adult free; 
two children are admitted on one 25-cent ticket. 



LIBBEY GLASS WORKS. 

Official Guide No. 6. Admission fee 10 cents. 

Here we have an exhibit which is at once interesting and instructive. 
Not only does it meet all the demands of the curiosity hunter, but 
those of the student as well. Practical lessons in one of the oldest of 
the arts are given throughout the day and evening and visitors, from an 
educational point of view, are greatly benefited by the experience of 
an hour within this beautiful building. The fee of 10 cents is remitted 
as a discount on all purchases. The structure occupied by this exhibit 
is the most beautiful on the Plaisance. Finished in staff, it has all the 
appearance of a marble palace. Inside, the sides, the dome, the ceilii g 
are all glitter and sheen with the products of this mystic art. The 
sparkling prismatic hues cast from hundreds of cut-glass pieces out- 
rival glistening diamonds. The visitor sees here the roaring furnaces 
containing the crucibles for the fusion of the materials that produce 
the glass, and there, near by, the finished cut-glass specimen, won- 
drously carved. The main doorway from Midway Plaisance leads to 
the glass house or blowing room. This room is semi-circular, the 
melting furnace being in the center, around which all the workmen 
may be seen, and the manipulation of the glass closely observed. The 
Libbey Glass Company has endeavored, both in the ingenious construc- 
tion of the palace, as also the placement of workmen, shops and 
materials, to make all processes easily comprehended by everyone. 
The furnace in the center of the blowing room is 100 feet high, in the 
form of a truncated cone, whose base is twenty-five feet in diameter. 

The Melting Pots are situated just within the circumference, around 
and a little above the base, in the following way : A canopy, whose 
zenith is about sixty inches above the base, shuts in the whole of the 
bottom of the tower. Within this tower are included the pots, over 
which and beneath the canopy circulates the heat, entering from 
below, caused by the burning of crude petroleum, pumped through the 
pipes from Ohio, the only fuel used in the building. Into this dome 
open ten arches, through which small window-like holes serve for the 
putting in of the batch or sand-mixture when molten. The pots are 
forty-eight inches high, reaching almost to the zenith of the canopy. 
At either side of each crucible there is a flue, making twenty flues in 
all. Above the little dome the tower is all open, the melting all being 
confined below. These pots are manufactured by special pot-makers, 
requiring many more details and much more painstaking in their con- 
struction than is generally supposed. To secure the requisite consist- 
ency, rich German clay is mixed with Missouri clay, and this mixture 



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is trampled by the bare feet. The bottom is three inches thick, forty- 
two inches wide and fifty-two inches long, while the sides of the pots 
are made by placing solid rolls of this clay, three inches in diameter 
by twenty-four inches in length, one upon another. Ninety degrees 
Fahrenheit is used in their baking, and no pots are used till from three 
to five months old. As all the 

Products of the Glass Works must needs have their beginning in 
this fiery furnace, the necessity of perfect utensils and of skilled, care- 
ful artisans is readily seen. This department should be thoroughly 
studied before the visitor goes to the cutter's, spinner's or engraver's 
wheels. 

First the crude materials, sand, oxide of lead, potash, saltpetre and 
nitrate of soda are successively put in the mixing bin, mixed, turned 
and sifted; the mixture, called batch, carried to the "working-hole," or 
window, of the melting furnace, into which it is thrown and confined 
from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, under about 2,200 degrees Fahren- 
heit, till the process af flux and fusion, called vitrification, takes place, 
when the contents become a plastic, molten mass. 

Cullet, a term applied to defective or broken glass, is thrown back 
into the pots and remelted. 

Lead, as the second ingredient of batch, gives a so-called flint basis, 
while soda and lime substituted for lead, give a lime basis. 

The flint basis always produces the cut-glass stock, and the lime 
basis usually produces the pressed glass stock. But, of whatever the 
batch consists, the process of vitrification is the same. 

The presence of iron in sand is marked by a greenish appearance. 
To offset this green color and give the glass live crystal color, manga- 
nese is added to the formula above; gold added to the batch produces 
ruby; cobalt produces blue; uranium, yellow; copper scales or iron 
scales, green; ground coke, burnt oats or birch bark, amber; creolite 
or feld-spar, milky white. 

A workman named "gatherer," with a hollow iron pipe called 
"blow pipe," reaches within the working hole, gathers some of the 
sticky metal at the point of the rod and passes the pipe to the blower. 
The latter rolls it, quickly and repeatedly, on an iron slab called 
" marver," to make the glass surface more symmetrical, expanding the 
glass by blowing through the pipe which, by his trained fingers, is kept 
constantly in 

All Easy Swaying flotion. When he swings the blow pipe below 
it allows the hot plastic substance to sway, and this swaying causes it 
to lengthen out gently. Should it lengthen too much, he holds the 
blow pipe upward, somewhat, or even upright, which shortens the 
shape. But all these motions are made frequently and rapidly, all 
regulated by requirements as dictated to the sensitive hand and ex- 
perienced eye of the skilful glass-blowers. Next a solid iron rod, 
called "pouty," is substituted for the blow pipe, and with this as a 
handle he turns the glass, touching it incessantly with wooden tools, 
forming 

Plaques and Plates in all conceivable shapes. If the product is to 
be molded the glass mass is dropped from the "pouty " into press molds, 
which are pushed beneath the plunger. The plunger is then inserted 
by the workman, who pulls the lever down. This causes a pressure 
upon the glass, and the mold is filled out according to the designs. 
Pushing the lever back tbe plunger is withdrawn, the mold is opened, 



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and a beautiful souvenir is taken from the clamp. One of the interest- 
ing features of this department is the blowing of long glass tubing, and 
the drawing or twisting of colored canes or cane stock. The further 
processes through which the glass product is put, after leaving the 
blowing room; the process through which 'cut glass" is put; the 
process of spinning, weaving and braiding glass fibre — all of them most 
interesting and instructive — may be followed by the visitor. No less 
interesting are the products, whether it be the glass dress woven for the 
Princess Eulalia, or the thousand and one beautiful things exhibited in 
the department of Engraving, Etching and Decoration, or in the Crystal 
Art display rooms. It would be impossible to enumerate, much less to 
describe, the hundreds of beautiful and useful things made of glass. 
These take almost every form and are in much demand as souvenirs. 
Here are the upholsterings of divans, chairs, ottomans, as well as cush- 
ions, lamp-shades' etc., entirely of glass cloth, though the most novel 
manufacture of the palace, do not appear as unique and novel as they 
really are, such is the subdued home-like look of their glossy textures. 

The visitor's attention is called particularly to the spun-glass cloth 
" tapisteries " and ceiling decorations, whose valuation is $10,000; also 
to the propriety of these goods as a canvas for the painter, the 
pleasant effect of such art work being seen in the studies exhibited in 
the Crystal Art Room. Lamp shades in various designs and sizes, illus- 
trate the practical utility of these goods. All woven glass fabrics may 
be sponged without the least detriment to color or goods. 

At the sides of the room are specimens of the company's deeply 
cut glass wares. Attention is invited to ice cream sets of thirteen 
pieces, encased in brass-bound morocco, sherbet and punch jugs of 
Roman design, quaint decanters of Venetian shapes, graceful celery 
trays, ice tubs, novel honey dishes, a high banquet lamp, richly cut, 
dishes of every conceivable shape and pattern At the entrance to the 
Crystal Art room are placed, in contradistinction, an old Henry Clay 
punch bowl t of 1812, in pressed glass, and an elegant $200 punch bowl, 
in deeply cut glass, manufactured by the Libbey Glass Company. 

[The Xew England Glass Company which, in 1818, Mr. Bishop, an authority on glass, 
pronounced "One of the most extensive flint glass manufacturers in the country," passed 
into the control of its former agent, Mr. W. L. Libbey, in 1S7S, -who not only maintained 
and elevated the company's high standing recognized by the U. S. government's records 
of 1865, but also greatly aided the development of the science and art. Mr. E. D. Libbey, 
on the death of his father, W. L. Libbey, in 1SS3, assumed the entire charge of the busi- 
ness, having been in the firm since 1SS0, and removed the factories then styled, "The W. 
L. Libbey & Son Company," successors to the New England Glass Company, to Toledo, 
Ohio, chiefly to secure the benefit of the natural gas, which affords a very uniform tem- 
perature, requisite in the production of beautiful clear glass of finest quality.] 



HRS. HART'S IRISH INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 7. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

This exhibit is known as Mrs. Hart's Irish Industrial Village, as dis- 
tinguished from that of which the Viscountess of Aberdeen is the pat- 
roness and promoter. It is also known as Donegal Castle. In reality 
it is the exhibit of the Donegal Industrial Fund which was founded in 
1883 by Mrs. Ernst Hart to encourage and develop hand-w r orkand home 
industries in Ireland. The village is entered by 

The St. Lawrence Gate in Drogheda, the original of which has 
stood for over 600 years in the little town of Drogheda. Passing 
through the village street is entered. The scene is quaint, picturesque, 



14 THE OFFICIAL GUIDE 

and uniquely Irish. The whitewashed cottages straggle round the vil- 
lage green, at the end of which rises a reproduction of Donegal castle, 
and beyond the ruined keep is seen the tapering form of the tall Round 
Tower. Turning to the left the Home Spun Cottage is entered. This 
is an exact reproduction of a Donegal cottage, and here homespuns are 
made by hand. The Lace Cottage comes next, where the visitor may 
watch the interesting process of Irish lace making. Next comes the 

Wood Carving and Designing Workshop. From this the Ban- 
queting Hall of Donegal Castle is entered, and here is arranged an in- 
teresting exhibit of Irish art and industry. The hall is reproduced one- 
half the size of the original. Here may be seen the collossal bronze 
statue of Gladstone, by Bruce Joy, the Irish sculptor, a bust of John 
Bri ht, by the same artist, and nearly 300 paintings and engravings by 
Irish artists, together with Irish manuscripts, crosses, «etc. The indus- 
trial exhibits shown here are the hand-work of employes of Donegal 
Industrial Fund, trained in Ireland during the past ten years. There 
are homespuns, spun and woven by hand of soft Donegal wool and 
plant dyed ; embroidered hangings, coverlets, curtains, lace, hosiery, etc., 








DONEGAL CASTLE. 

made in the different counties of Ireland. In the Concert and Lecture 
Hall delightful concerts are given on the harp, and from time to time 
Mrs. Hart lectures on Irish Art, Irish Industries, Lace, Round Towers, 
etc. Passing through the Lecture Hall the visitor enters the shady 
Tower Garden and Restaurant, where he may rest and drink tea or lem- 
onade and take refreshment under the shade of the trees. From the 
center of the garden rises to the height of 100 feet 

The Round Tower. A beautiful and interesting replica of one of 
the eighty towers still standing in Ireland. Those towers were built 
1, coo years ago, and were intended as places of refuge for the monks 
and priests and their holy vessels and books when Ireland was over-run 
by the invading Danes. At this early period Ireland was the center of 
the light and learning of Western Europe. Her illuminated MSS. and her 
wonderful metal work (some replicas of which will be seen in the cas- 
tle) have excited the wonder of later ages. It will be notej that the 
first doorway is sixteen feet from the ground. Around the base of the 
tower have been erected reproductions of the Druidical Hole, Bullen and 
Ogham stones, the earliest relics of Irish civilization, and in the shade 
of the trees is seen the beautiful recumbent statue of Bishop Berkely, 



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the work of the Irish sculptor, Bruce Joy. To the left of the ruins ot 
the keep of Donegal Castle will he found a spot clear to the heart of 
every Irishman, 

The Wishing Chair of the Giant's Causeway, exactly reproduced to 
scale and measurement, and standing on Irish soil, brought from Ireland 
in crates on purpose. When the soil was peeled from the mountain 
side it was covered with green shamrocks and purple heather, and every 
effort has been made to keep them alive, but with ill success. The visi- 
tor will pass now through the archway of the ruined keep of Donegal 
Castle, once the stronghold of the O'Donnells, the Princes of Tyr- 
connel, and will cross at once to 




LACE MAKING, IN THE IRISH VILLAGE. 



The Village Smithy, where McGloughlin, of Dublin, the Clevel- 
and artistic smith, is busy making "things of beauty" out of long iron 
rods. The clang of the hammer on the anvil is heard all day long, 
except when the smith leaves his work to take part in a concert or his 
apprentice joins O'Hara, the weaver, in dancing the Irish jig on the vil- 
lage green. A step leads to the 

"Kells Embroidery" Cottage. The Kells embroideries were invented 
by Mrs. Hart in 1884 as a new Irish industry, and she was awarded the 
gold medal for them at the Inventions Exhibition, in London, in 1885, and 
has since been awarded hi^h awards in Paris, Melbourne, Saltaire and 
other great international exhibitions. The Kells linens are being woven 
by hand by John Timmins, of Portadown, County Armagh, who has been 
employed by Mrs. Hart for the past eight years, and embroidered with 
Kells threads by Rose Gildea, of Donegal. Bridget Gildea, of Donegal, 



16 THE OFFICIAL GUIDE 

is engaged in "sprigging" handkerchiefs, an industry which employs a 
great number of girls in Counties Down and Donegal. Next the Cottage 
Restaurant will be found, where sandwiches, tea, coffee, cakes, etc., are 
served by Irish girls. A quiet and pleasant half hour can be spent sit- 
ting under the shade of the trees on the Village Green, listening to the 
stirring music which comes from the pipes of 

Mac Sweeney, the Piper, one of the characters of the village. Mac 
Sweeney comes from Gweedore, and claims to be the direct descend- 
ant of the McSwines of Donegal, one of the most ancient of the Gaelic 
clans of the northwest. The music gives motion to longing feet, and in 
the cool of the afternoon Irish jigs are danced on the platform on the 
green to the music of the pipes. 



JAPANESE BAZAR. 

Official Guide No. 8. No admission fee. 

This bazar is under the management of H. F. Tetsuker, and may be 
called purely a commercial venture. It has no connection with the 
Japanese Commission. The articles displayed and offered for sale make 
an attractive exhibit. 

JAVANESE VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 9. Admission fees : To Village, 10 cents; to Theater, 25 cents. 

This is one of the most attractive exhibits on the Plaisance. The 
exterior view, a high bamboo fence, above which rises the pointed 
roofs of a cluster of bamboo huts, compels the average visitor to pause. 
Entering the gate and turning to the right, you pass as you walk 
around the enclosure a number of huts where natives of Java are em- 
ployed upon the various species of handicraft followed in their far-away 
island. The ensemble ~ huts with the more pretentious houses form 
an exact representation of a native village in the Preanger Regencies 
of West Java. The square in the center is called the alon-alon, and 
close to this is the theater and the Mohammedan temple. The occu- 
pations of the natives are self-explanatory. Many of the articles 
which they make here are offered for sale in one of the larger booths. 
There are about 125 men and 36 women in the village. The visitor 
will be struck at once with the bright and cheerful faces of those little 
people. The women and girls as a rule are very petite and pretty. 
There is a grace in their movements which has attracted general 
admiration. 

The Theater is worthy of a visit. The plot is something like this: 
A king wishes to give his daughter in marriage to a certain prince, on 
condition that he shall accomplish certain extraordinary feats, and shall 
obtain for the king some very rare objects, extremely hard to procure; 
he fails, and a prince of a hostile dynasty succeeds. The princess in 
the meantime has been stolen by a giant. 

The Successful Prince attacks the giant, kills him and brings the 
required objects. The first prince is furious and provokes the second 
prince, but the latter is victorious. The play ends with the marriage 
of the victor and the daughter of the king. Hanoeman, the king of 
the monkeys, plays often a part in the story. 

The Gamelan or Orchestra is always behind the stage, and its 
curiously formed instruments form a suitable background to the stage. 



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The leader plays a two-stringed violin, or rebab. There is only one 
blow instrument, the soeling, a sort of bamboo whistle. Then there 
are the gambang, a sort of xylophone, with wooden blocks, and similar 
instruments made of brass and silver; these are the sarons. The 
bonangs are kettle-shaped affairs, placed on a rack of wood and rattan. 
Then there are two or three big gongs, whose deep, mighty sound 
forms what might be called a background to the music. There are 
also small drums, the gendangs, and one big drum, a bedoeg. 

The music is very highly developed, though it is formed on entirely 
different lines from our American music. In American music there are 
eight tones in an octave, in the Javanese music this distance is divided 
seven for the pelog and five for the salendro. The Javanese say the sa-* 
le'ndro sounds like glass, and has a manly sound, the pelog sounds more 
tender and must have a metallic " timbre." It is possible to play Ameri- 
can music on gamelan instruments by changing the arrangement of 
tomes somewhat. This will be shown at the end of the performance. 

The Dancing is in fact more a series of graceful posing, with slow 
rhythmic movements of the hands and feet, than a dance as we under- 
stand it. The dancers are mostly very young, from thirteen to eighteen 
years of age. 

The Soendanese perform first, the Javanese dancers (from Central 
Java) appear at the end. Their dress and style are quite different. The 
Javanese show the higher art in the wajang, which mostly illustrates a 
fight between the celebrated historical heroes. The " serimpis " or Jav- 
anese dancing girls are from the court of the Sultan of Solo, a part of 
Java, independent in name, but protected and ruled by Holland. 

Programme: (1) Laquo rame, or musical welcome; (2) Soendan- 
ese dance or tandah, performed by dancing girls from West Java; (3) 
Soendanese wajang, representing an incident in the mythical history of 
Java; (4) Javanese wajang, performed by the Javanese dancing girls 
from the court of his majesty, the Sultan of Solo (Central Java); (5) 
American national airs performed by the gamelan or orchestra. 

The Javanese Village is controlled by the Chicago Exhibition Syn- 
dicate, G. de Brun, and W. R. Garrison, directors; J. N. Kalff, financial 
manager; A. R. W. Kerkhoven, C. E. in charge. 



THE GERMAN VILLAGE. 

Offical Guide No. 10. Admission fees: To Garden, East end, free. To Concert 
Garden, West end, 25 cents. To Museum, 15 cents. 

The largest concession on the Plaisance, covering an area of 780x223 
feet, is owned by the German Ethnographic Exhibition (Limited) of Ber- 
lin, Germany. Th? General Manager is Mr. C. Schmidt, whose office is 
in the town hall of the village. Entering the village common through 
the eastern entrance adjoining the Java village, the visitor will find 
himself amongst a group of Typical German Peasant Homes, consisting 
of a Black Forest House, Westphalian Inn, Upper Bavarian Home and 
a Spreewald house, the home of the German fisherman, together with a 
Hessian Rural Townhall. 

The Black Forest House contains on its upper floor a gothic room 
from the Tyrole n Alps, time: 1478, and a room from the southern slope 
of the Black Forest, time: 1674. The ground floor is occupied by a dairy, 
where milk dishes are served to the visitor. 

The Westphalian Inn, or Nether Saxon House, containsjm its north. 



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west corner the celebrated Lueneburg tavern, time : 1570- In the Spree- 
wald House a peasant room of Nether Germany, time 1618, is shown. 







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The Hessian Town Hall contains a most interesting folk-lore collec- 
tion, and a bazar where articles of German art industry are sold and 




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delivered. On the Village Common booths are scattered and articles of 
industry from all the manufacturing centers of Germany are sold, the 



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whole presenting the picture of a German rural fair. No admission is 
charged to the village common or its buildings. Opposite the Town 
Hall is 

The Castle, an exact reproduction of a feudal stronghold of the lat- 
ter part of the 15th century, surrounded by a moet and accessible over a 
draw bridge. The castle contains the great ethnographic museum con- 
sisting of the celebrated collection of arms and armors of all centuries, 
the property of Town Councillor, Richard Zschille, of Grossenhain, in 
Saxony, and his extensive collection of ancient cutlery and tools. 
Further curiosities in the Museum are a collection of 890 specimens of 
weaving and embroideries from the 6th to the 18th century. A collec- 
tion of Mansfeld's celebrated etchings, together with rare paintings of 
old masters. The great Germania Group, an apotheosis of the German 
empire, the German Emperors, from Arminius to William I., surrounded 
by a group of fifty peasants, clad in the festal costumes of all sections of 
Germany. It also contains models of various ancient German burial 
places. The value of all these collections cannot be estimated, but rep- 



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resent an actual outlay of 3,000,000 marks. The west half of The 
Castle contains the splendid wine restaurant, seven large and small 
rooms fitted up in old German style, the pride of the Fair. Fine meals 
are served herewith choice Rhine and Moselle wines at all hours of the 
day at very reasonable prices. The fortified West Front of the castle 
faces the spacious 

Concert Garden, shaded by the dense foliage of a grove of oak 
trees, where twice a day, afternoon and evening, grand military con- 
certs are given by two German military bands, picked from the best 
regimental music of Germany. The Guard Infantry Band is under 
the leadership of Royal Music Director Ed. Ruschewxyh, who has been 
a German military leader for 34 years. The Garde du Corps Cavalry 
Band is commanded by Staff trumpeter Gustav Herold, who has been 
in the military service for over 20 years. A special feature of these 
concerts is the 

Daily Dress Parade by both bands in the village common and the 
march to the concert garden in full parade uniform. This garden, 
with its surrounding dining-halls, can accommodate over 7,000 people. 



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Warm and cold meals are served there, with imported and domestic 
beer or wines, and the prices are acknowledged to be the most reason- 
able on the fair grounds. Particular attention is called to the table 
d'hote at 12:30 p.m., when a fine meal is served for $1.00. 



POMPEII PANORAMA. 

Official Guide No. n. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

A very realistic representation of the City of Pompeii, destroyed 
by the eruption of Vesuvius in the year 63, as well as of the city as it 
appears to-day. The merit of this work is due to the brush of the 
celebrated painter, Count Antonio Coppola of Naples, w T ho after three 
years of incessant labor, gives us in life the daily movement of Pom- 
peii and revives and reforms a most important and complete collection 
of Pompeian subjects, representing the principal edifices of this ancient 
city, with its customs and special rites and the most important scenes 
of Pompeian public and private life. Worthy of a visit. 



THE STREET IN CAIRO. 

Official Guide No. 12. Admission fees: To the Street, 15 cents. To the Theater, 
25 to 75 cents, according to location of Seat. To the Tombs, 10 cents. To 
the Temple, 25 cents. To the Soudanese Huts, 10 cents. Fortune Tellers 
charge 25 cents. Make 'special arrangement for Camel and Donkey Rides. 

The Street In Cairo is one of the great attractions of Midway Plai- 
sance. Only a few steps from the crowded roadway one finds oneself 
in the center of a busy thoroughfare in ancient Egypt, where the 
architecture, the surroundings and the people are as far removed from 
anything American as could well be imagined. The street is narrow 
and bent, but not so narrow nor so crowded as to hide from the visitor's 
view the strange oriental facades, the picturesque shops, the quaint 
overhanging upper stories of the ancient Egyptian city. It is evidently 
a busy day (or night) in Cairo when you enter. Donkeys and camels 
are engaged in carrying men, women and children who are certainly 
not Egyptians either in manners or appearance, whatever else they 
may be; the shop windows facing the street are surrounded by curiosity 
seekers and purchasers; the natives move around and mingle with the 
strangers; there is merry laughter on all sides, and for a few minutes 
at least you are lost to all consciousness of being in that extremely 
modern city called Chicago. 

The Theater attracts a great number of persons daily and nightly. 
Much has been said and written of the dances to be seen here. It is 
entirely optional with those who visit the Street whether they shall 
also witness the dances. And it may be said also to be solely a matter 
of taste. 

The Camels and Donkeys may be hired by the trip, up and down 
the Street. 

The Tombs of the Ancient Kings should be visited, because 
everybody visits them. 

The Temple and the Soudanese Huts are also well patronized, 
and it will not do to leave before you have tried your luck with 



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The Fortune Teller. There is a great deal of enjoyment to be 
had out of a trip through the street itself, regardless of side attractions. 
Souvenirs are on sale everywhere. There is atypical Egyptian restau- 
rant, and refreshments such as are served on the Nile may be had here 




PART OF THE STREET IN CAIRO. 



for the asking. No visitors miss the street in Cairo. At intervals dur- 
ing the day the Muezzin calls the faithful to prayer in the mosque, and 
the Mohammedans may be seen at their devotion. 



PERSIAN PALACE. 

Official Guide No. 13. Admission fees: Persian Theater, 25 cents; Persian Cafe 
Concert, 25 cents. 

In the Persian theater athletes and wrestlers perform seven times a 
■ day, from 2 p. m. till 10 p. m. Peter Samson, "the strongest man in the 



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world," appears at the end of each performance. He performs some 
wonderful feats of physical and muscular strength, such as cutting iron 
chains, bending an iron bar by striking it over his arm, etc. 

The Cafe Concert. Ten pretty girls, known as the "Troupe of the 
La Bella Bayah" dance and sing and perform on native instruments. 
These performances are given daily from n a m.tonp.m. In con- 
nection with these features there is a 

Persian Bazar where souvenirs are sold and refreshments are 
served. 




THE FERRIS WHEEL. 



HODEL OF THE EIFFEL TOWER. 

Official Guide No. 14. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

About one-fifteenth the size of the original, but a perfect reproduc- 
tion, even to the rivets and bolts. It was reproduced with mathemati- 



TO MIDWAY PLAISAN'CE. 23 

cal accuracy. The little tower, but twenty feet high, is composed of 
65o,oco separate pieces of iron and steel, rivets not included, and these 
pieces, placed end to end, would form a line of steel four miles long. 
Even the eight elevators work, at a speed corresponding to those run in 
the original tower, and on the summit a miniature lighthouse moves 
just as the big one does at Paris. At regular intervals the tower bursts 
into a blaze of electric lights, hundreds of little lamps taking the places 
of the big ones used on the original at Paris. The surroundings of the 
tower are shown as perfectly as the main structure. 



THE FERRIS WHEEL. 

Official Guide No 15. Fee, 50 cents for the Round Trip. 

Designed and carried into execution by Mr. George W. G. Ferris, of 
Pittsburg, Pa. A structure 250 feet in diameter. The great wheel has 
thirty-six carriages for passengers hung on its periphery at equal inter- 
vals. Each car is twenty-seven feet long, thirteen feet wide, and nine 
feet high. They have a heavy frame of iron, but are covered externally 
with wood. They have a door, and five broad plate-glass windows on 
each side, and contain forty revolving chairs, each made of wire and 
screwed to the floor. They weigh thirteen tons each, and with their 
forty passengers will weigh three tons more. They are suspended to 
the periphery of the wheel by an iron axle six and one-half inches in 
diameter, which runs through the roof, and are provided with conductors 
to open the doors, preserve order, and give information. All the cars 
together will carry 1,400 people. The wheel, with its cars and passen- 
gers, weighs 2.700 tons and cost over $400,000. 

It is arranged to empty and refill six cars with passengers at a time, 
so that there will be six stops in every revolution. Accordingly six 
railed platforms of varying heights have been provided on the north side 
of the wheel and six more, corresponding with these, on the south side 
of it. When the wheel stops each of the six lowest cars has a platform 
at each of its doors. The passengers step out of the south doors, and 
other passengers step in at the north doors. 



ALGERIAN AND TUNISIAN VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 16. No admission fee to Village proper. To Theater, 25 to 50 
cents. 

In imitation of village shown at Paris in 1867, 1S78, and 1889. The 
village is peopled with natives from Algeria and Tunis. There is a ba- 
zar where souvenirs are offered for sale. Oriental jewelry, rugs, cush- 
ions, table covers, Arabesqued tracings, perfumery, etc., are offered to 
visitors. There are representatives of the haughty odalisques and sul- 
tanas brought from a Moorish harem. In a street of the village is a 
Bedouin camp with all its picturesque features. Here also may be 
found snake charmers, jugglers, dancing girls, an orchestra, etc. The 
dancers give performances in a hall which seats 1,000 persons. 



VIENNA CAFE. 

Official Guide No. 17. No admission fee. 

A very pleasant and restful refreshment establishment, conducted 
on the continental style. Music adds to the pleasure of the patrons, 
and the food served is excellent. Prices moderate. 



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EAST INDIAN VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 18. No admission fee. 

A handsome little building erected by the Bombay firm of Messrs. 
Ardeshir & Byramji, for the sale and exhibit of East" Indian art ware. 
Specialty in hand-carved blackwood and sandalwood furniture, boxes, 
tables, chairs, etc.; Cashmere, Benares and Moradabad brass and copper 
hand-chased and enameled vases, pots, etc.; embroidered shawls, table- 
covers, and cushions; Cutch and Cashmere silverware and jewelry; old 
battle-axes, arms and idols. 




THE CRATER QF THE VOLCANO. 



KILAUEA PANORAMA. 

Official Guide No. 19. Admission fee, 50 cents. 

This is one of the most strikingly beautiful and realistic cycloramas 
ever presented to the American public. It is a vivid picture of the 
great volcano of Hawaii, with all of the surrounding scenery, at once so 
varied and impressive as to have inspired the most experienced travel- 
ers with awe. The Panorama building is one of the most attractive on 
the Plaisance. Over the main entrance is a mammoth statue of The 
Goddess of Fire, which is twenty-five feet in height. 

The panorama represents with vivid exactness the great volcano while 



TO MIDWAY PLAISANCE. 27 

in action. Hot and seething lava spurts through fissures of the earth, 
forming lakes of gleaming fire. Cones are formed by the lava on cool- 
ing and are changed and undermined by fresh lava, rendering the scene 
extremely unique and charming. The volcano is a vast sink, nine miles 
in circumference and from 500 to 1,500 feet in depth. 

In the distance can be seen the Pacific ocean and far away below 
the horizon on the other side, the capital city Honolulu rests in quiet 
repose. A lecturer is on hand all the time, pointing out and explaining 
the many objects of interest. The luridness of flowing lava is produced 
or enforced by numerous electric lights. The company has in use 
over 300 of these lights. Mr. Lorain A. Thurston, of Honolulu, is the 
promoter of this enterprise. It required two years to complete the 
painting, and involved an expense of $82,030, which is carried by Hono- 
lulu capitalists. 

AHERICAN INDIAN VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 20. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

• To eastern and foreign visitors this village will, perhaps, have a 
greater attraction than many of its neighbors, for here may be seen the 
remnants of some "of the greatest tribes of North American Indians 
that the white man has disinherited and almost annihilated. The Potta- 
watomies and Winnebagoes have a peculiar interest, for these tribes less 
than one hundred years ago were in possession of the land upon which 
Chicago stands to-day. There are representatives of the Sioux, Chippewa 
and other nations; there are squaws and papooses; the wigwams are 
standing and occupied, and the visitor may see here a typical North 
American Indian village, with the various games of the young braves 
in progress. War dances are given and trinkets are sold as souvenirs. 



CHINESE VILLAGE. . 

Official Guide No. 21. Admission fees: To Village, 10 cents; to Theater and 
Joss House, 25 cents. 

The Wah Mee Exposition Company, known as the Chinese Village, 
consists of a theater, a joss house (Chinese temple of worship), bazar, 
tea garden and cafe. The actors and actresses who perform in the 
theater have been selected from the very best in China; they are cos- 
tumed in all silk hand-embroidered garments, also imported from 
China. The plays are identically the same as given in the larger cities 
in China. Chinese musicians playing upon native instruments form a 
conspicuous feature. The furnishings and fittings of the theater are 
unique in character and were brought from China especially for the 
purpose. A conspicuous object is a chandelier from the center of the 
theater, which possesses in itself historical interest. 

The Joss House on the second floor contains thousands of idols 
and represents heaven from the Buddhist stand-point. The infernal 
regions, with the many different modes of punishment, are vividly 
illustrated. Also on the second floor are shown a store, a farmhouse 
and a house of royalty, and in the latter lives a Chinese lady and two 
children, a little girl 2y 2 years old and a baby boy 11 months of age. In 

The Bazaar everv article manufactured bv the Chinese is for sale. 
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Tea Garden and Cafe you can get real Chinese tea served in 
Chinese style; Chinese dishes of various kinds, fruits, etc., also all 
kinds of first-class American dishes are served. Also on the balcony 
leading from the second floor and fronting on Midway Plaisance, where 




THE CHINESE CAFE. 



you can get a fine view of the entire grounds, you can sit down and, 
while listening to the soft, sweet strains of the Chinese music, have 
tea and fruit served. 



CAPTIVE BALLOON PARK. 

Official Guide No. 22. Admission to Concert Garden, free; Balloon Ascensions, 
$2.00 per trip. 

Three concerts are given daily — morning, afternoon and evening — 
and refreshments are served. Early in the season the company's bal- 
loon was wrecked, but a new one will make ascensions before the Fair 
closes. 



BRAZILIAN CONCERT HALL. 

Official Guide No. 23. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

The Brazilian popular dances, which take place daily in this building, 
are performed by thirteen natives of the Sertoes of the north of Brazil, 
South America. Thr dances are interesting, owing to their originality, 
and are always accompanied by some of the most melodious singing 
that is heard in the Plaisance. 



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CALIFORNIA OSTRICH FARH. 

Official Guide No. 24. Admission fee, 10 cents. 

Here a number of ostriches of all ages, mostly hatched and bred en 
California ostrich farms, where the experiment of breeding the Aus- 
tralian birds has proved successful and profitable, are shown. The 
exhibit is interesting and instructive. 



SITTING BULL'S LOG CABIN. 

Official Guide No. 25. Admission fee, 10 cents. 

For a time the home of one of the most daring, vindictive and cruel 
chiefs of the Sioux nation, remembered especially because of his con- 
nection with the horrible Custer massacre. Interesting relics are shown. 



MILITARY CAHPING GROUND. 

Official Guide No. 26. No admission fee. 

This section of the Plaisance is set aside for the accommodation of 
visiting military organizations. Many of the most notable State mili- 
tary companies and regiments of the country will occupy it from time 
to time. 

OTTOMAN'S ARAB CAMP. 

Official Guide No. 27. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

This is also known as "The Wild East Show," the performance con- 
sisting of feats of horsemanship and daring by Bedouin Arabs. These 
Bedouins were brought to Chicago by a private company, and it was the 
original intention to exhibit them in the South Side base ball park. 
They gave performances for a time in Garfield race track, but met with 
fire losses and other misfortunes. They perform some remarkable and 
blood-curdling feats with their short scimeters, on foot and on horse- 
back; give a desert performance which is attractive for its weirdness 
and have proved to be generally acceptable to lovers of rough riding and 
dangerous sport. 

HUNGARIAN CAFE. 

Official Guide No. 28. No admission fee. 

The attractions consist principally of theatrical performances and 
concerts on the roof garden. The theater has a seating capacity of 600 
while the Roof Garden has space for 1,400. There are four daily per- 
formances given by a first-class specialty company. There is absolutely 
no admission charged to these performances. The roof garden concerts 
are free also. Meals and lunches are served at popular prices. 



LAPLAND VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 29. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

This is a very interesting exhibit and one that the visitor should not 
pass. The Laplanders, thirty-seven in number — twelve of whom are 
women and six children — were brought directly from the frozen north, 
and they are exhibited here as nearly as possible just exactly as they 
live at home. In the village are many of the native sod or earth huts 



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and tepees, dogs, puppies, reindeer and baby reindeer. Two of the 
baby reindeer were born on shipboard while coming to this country, 
and two have been born on Midway plaisance. The reindeer are per- 
fect pets and seem to enjoy being fondled. The Laplanders have with 
them all the articles used in their Arctic houses, including various 
sledges, which look like canoes, snow shoes eight feet long, and an 
endless amount of their valuable fur clothing, queer boots, fishing 
tackle, etc. They are intelligent, interesting people and many of 
them talk very good English. 



DAHOMEY VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 30. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

The village consists ot three houses, one of which is fitted up as a 
museum, a group of huts, open sheds for cooking purposes, etc. Much 
of the material used in the construction of the village was brought from 
Dahomey by the company controlling the concession. The women 
number forty, the men sixty, and the sexes occupy each a division of 
the village. There is a marked contrast between the men and women, 
the latter being much larger, fiercer looking and altogether more sav- 
age in their appearance than the former, who are rather inclined to be 
effeminate. Those who have visited the Javanese village will observe 
at once that there are very striking degrees of barbarism. The habits 
of these people are repulsive; they eat like animals and have all the 
characteristics of the very lowest order of the human family. Nearly 
all the women are battle-scarred; most of them are captives. All will 
be returned to Dahomey at the close of the Exposition. 







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OLD VIENNA, OR AUSTRIAN VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 3«- Admission fee, 25 cents. 

One of the most quaint and entertaining exhibits on the Plaisance, 
as well as one of the most creditable. Here are shown in the most re- 
alistic manner reproductions of the houses and streets in old Vienna, 
where the visitor may without much effort of the imagination feel that 
he is in a foreign citv of the last century. 

Within the picturesque enclosure there are thirty-six buildings, the 
rathhaus or City Hall (an illustration of which is given) being the most 
prominent. There is much to amuse and entertain one inside, whether 
it be the shops where all sorts of beautiful things of Viennese manu- 
facture are displayed, or the music which is constant, or the refresh- 
ments which are plentiful. Viennese women serve coffee and genuine 




THE ANCIKNT RATHHAUS, OLD VIENNA. 

Vienna bread to the stranger within the gates, while beauties from the 
Austrian capital also show you souvenirs and sell them to you if you 
give them half a chance. Austrian peasants, male and female, artisans 
and tradespeople are numerous. A branch of the Royal Bank of Aus- 
tria is established within the village. 



FRENCH CIDER PRESS. 

Official Guide No. 32. 

Here pretty Parisiennes dispense sweet cider while you wait, at 10 

cents per glass. 



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ICE RAILWAY. 

Official Guide No. 33. Trip twice 
around, 10 cents. 

If you are in need of ex- 
citement you can get it here. 
A ride behind a 2:08^ horse, 
or a 70-mile-an-hour loco- 
motive would be monoto- 
nous and tiresome in com- 
parison with a dash around 
the Ice Railway track. You 
may never want to take the 
trip but once; yet if you miss 
taking it you will have vis- 
ited Midway Plaisance in 
vain. The trip really means 
a "coast" in a bob-sled over 
850 feet of real ice. It is at 
once an example of invent- 
ivegeniusand the successful 
application in a novel man- 
ner of the principles of re- 
frigeration, a business which 
>3 in the last few years has 
j5| reached an extent and im- 
^ portance such as few people 
< realize. The exhibit con- 
°* sists of inclosed frame build- 
w ings, which form a spacious 
n ellipse and occupy a space 
w 400x60 feet, at the south side 
^ of the Ferris wheel. Run- 
ning the full length of the 
inclosed space is a track 
which, as stated, is 850 feet 
around, and 44 J4 inches in 
width. On either side are 
guards of heavy girders sev- 
eral inches high, which hold 
the flying bob-sled within 
proper bounds and make 
accidents impossible. The 
surface of the track between 
the guards contains a coat 
of ice nearly an inch thick, 
and over this smooth and 
glistening substance the 
bob-sleighs glide with the 
velocity of a toboggan and 
the ease of a coaster, to 
the merry jingle of sleigh 
bells. The Ice Railway was 
designed and erected by the 
De La Vergne Refrigerating 
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York. The cost of the plant for the manufacture of the ice and the 
Ice Railway itself was about $100,000. W. M. Distin, manager. 



HODEL OF ST. PETER'S. 

Official Guide No. 34. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

The building in which the model is housed was designed by S. S. 
Beman, of Chicago, for Mr. Ludovic de B. Spiridon, the well-known art 
connoisseur of the Vatican, and is under the personal supervision of 
the owner. The facade of the structure reminds one of the front of 
St. Peter's, though it is not meant to be a fac-simile. The material is 
staff, which makes a good imitation of white marble. On the pediment 
is the coat-of-arms of r'ope Paul V., one of the Borghese family. On 
the roof float the papal banner, with its mitre and crossed keys, and the 
standard of the^municipality of 'Rome. The front of the building, be- 
tween the two side entrances,*is covered with a remarkably fine per- 




MODEL OF ST. PETERS. 

spective view of the nave of St. Peter's. Two stalwart attendants, 
dressed in the yellow, black and red costume of 

The Pope's Swiss Guards, stand at the entrance. A softened light 
from above adds to the general harmonious and chaste color effect of 
the interior. The walls are covered with rich crimson cloth. Massive 
gilt-framed portraits and paintings of the coats-of -arms of famous cardi- 
nals and popes stand out in relief against the crimson background. 
Not one garish tone disturbs the harmony of the coloring. At one end 
to the room is reproduced 

The Papal Throne, and under it a chair used by Pope Pius IX., 
which was procured from the estate of the late Cardinal Antonelli. 
The chair is covered with embossed crimson velvet, the pattern of which 
is the papal coat-of-arms. The model of 

St. Peter's stands on an oval platform, about four feet high, occupv- 
ing the center of the room. The miniature cathedral is made of carved 
wood, coated with a substance which perfectly imitates the time-colored 
marble of the original, and is constructed on a scale of one-sixtieth. 
It measures thirtv feet in length and fifteen in width. It differs from 



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most models of this sort in that it is made on a scale large enough to 
permit of the minutest details being accurately reproduced, even to the 
bas-reliefs of the facade, the statues and the inscriptions. The eight 
figures on top of the colonade are as perfect in their miniature state as 
the great statues on the original cathedral. Some idea of the magni- 
tude of St. Peter's may be gained by comparing the Borghese coat- 
of-arms on the facade of the model with a full-sized drawing of 
the same coat-of-arms which hangs on the wall of the room to the 
right of the model. The model itself has an interesting history. It 
was begun in the sixteenth century, before the completion of the 
cathedral, and was finished in the eighteenth century. It has since 
been in the possession of several popes and members of Roman fami- 
lies of royal blood. It is now owned by the exhibitor. Other interest- 
ing models of historical buildings are shown, notably those of the 
Cathedral of Milan, the doorway of the Hotel del Orso in Rome, and 
the Pantheon of Agrippa. 



PARISIAN CRYSTAL WORKS. 

Official Guide No. 35, Admission, 10 cents. 

An interesting exhibit of the manufacture of pretty glassware, in 
designs of a curious and novel character. The art of glass spinning is 
shown. Souven are sold. Parisian Glassware Company, proprietors. 



TREE OF WONDER. 

Official Guide No. 36. Admission fee, 10 cents. 

This is one of those perplexing optical illusions always interesting, 
both for their noveltyand the opportunities for study which they afford. 

MOORISH PALACE. 

Official Guide No. 37. Restaurant and Concert Hall, first floor, free; admission fees: 
Theater, 25 cents; Labyrinth and Wax Works, 25 cents: Execution of Marie 
Antoinette, 10 cents additional; Optical Illusion, 15 cents additional. 

The building was designed by August Fiedler, a Chicago Architect. 
It is a beautiful reproduction of Moorish architecture. The palm gar- 
den with its continuous labyrinth, copied from the famous Alhambra at 
Granada, is one of the leading attractions, but the splendid appoint- 
ments, elaborate decorations, and fine groups in wax which picture the 
palace as it stood in the days of the Arabian owners recall to the visitor 
vividly the pen pictures of Washington Irving. As the visitor steps 
into the palm garden he finds himself in what appears to be a boundless 
space. Far as the eye can reach the ingeniously arranged mirrors cre- 
ate the illusion of endless rows of stately palms, casting their shade 
over hundreds of life-like figures in the gaudy costumes of the lords of 
the desert. Groups of men and women, talking, lounging or amusing 
themselves, each group multiplied again and again in the perspective of 
mirrors, are seen on every side. Tiring of this he finds his way out by 
the aid of a guide. The transition is into a fairyland filled with start- 
ling surprises. The first thing which impresses the observer within the 
palace are the elaborate decorations. He is in a maze of Alabaster-like 
columns, stretching away in long vistas. The columns are covered with 
curious hieroglyphics and support a dome and arched ceiling reflecting 
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floor of mosaics, the visitor may cast his eves upward, and admire the 
delicate filigree in gold, purple and silver, sweeping in flowing lines, 
here and there gracefully crossing and forming an intricate net-work of 
beautiful curves. From the arch depend pretty little stalactites, in gilt, 
producing a very pleasant effect on the pearly back-ground. Stepping 
on through the mystic passages, the visitor suddenly catches a glimpse 
of landscape through what appears to be an oval window. It is really 
the effect of the omnipresent mirror and the charming stretch of beach 
and deceptive foam-capped waves is but the reflection from a concealed 
painting. Turning about, another window on the other side of the 
palace exposes to view a ravine-cleft mountain, with leaping cascades. 
Another step, and the holy of holies appears — a realistic group in the 
innermost recesses of the harem, a sheik surrounded by his favorites. 
The central figure is the brawny chieftain himself, for the moment at 



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EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE MOORISH PALACE. 

luxurious ease. For his amusement an odalisque is tripping through a 
dance. The favorite wife, a beauty with pink cheeks, plump arms and 
long dark tresses, has fallen asleep, with her head resting on her lord's 
knee. The figures are of wax, of course, but are very realistic. You 
meet with a life-like black eunich, who is supposed to guard the 
way to the harem. Coming out of the Magic Maze you find a crowd 
gazing into 

A Bottomless Well. After you have gazed into its depths to your 
satisfation, an opening in a ledge of rock meets your sight and entering 
it you find yourself in a cave. The walls of 

The Cave glitter like so many diamonds, and as you turn your e\ es 
upward the sight of a group of devils makes you start. There, in a hole 
in the rocks above, a lot of red imps are staring at you. The 



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" Birth of the Harp" can also be found in one of the cave's cool passage- 
ways. Next a small flight of stairs is ascended and you find yourself in 
A Monster Kaleidoscope where you see one thousand people stand- 
ing around you. From here you descend and ascend the broad stair- 
case of the palace to the floors above, in which are collected some of 
the finest Wax Works ever seen in this country. These are from the 
Berlin Panopticon, and are almost in every instance true to life itself. 
The first thing that greets your eyes is a sign reading, " Please do not 
talk to the Wax Figures." 

The Panopticon will entertain you for an hour or more. There are 
Emperers and Empresses, Kings and Queens, distinguished Men and 

Women and many pathetic and 
humorous groups. For an ex- 
tra fee of 10 cents you are ad- 
mitted into a small chamber 
where you find a most realistic 
representation of the Place de 
Revolution (now the Place de 
la Concorde) of Paris, France, 
as it appeared on the 16th day 
of October, 1793 (one hundred 
years ago), just before the 

Execution of flarie An= 
toinette. The guillotine on 
which hundreds of lives were 
sacrificed during the Reign of 
Terror, stands before you. On 
the scaffold, erect and beautiful, 
is the unfortunate Queen, who 
has just been carted to her fate. 
The executioner and his assist- 
ant are at her side; below the 
steps are the guard, near the 
block is the basket to catch her 
head; in the back-ground is the 
Parisian mob, the red caps of 
the commune being prominent 
in the angry, maddened crowd. 
The picture is an awfully beau- 
tiful one,' and should be seen 
by all. In another chamber, 
for an additional sum of 15 cents, you may behold something in the line of 
Optical Illusions that will afford you food for thought. There are 
three of these, and they are presented with astonishing skill. In 

The Theaters some very creditable performances and concerts are 
given. The Moravian orchestras are excellent, and the girls are perhaps 
the most beautiful to be seen on the Plaisance. Altogether the Moorish 
Palace is worthy of patronage. There is nothing to be seen here that 
woman and children cannot thoroughly enjoy. 




AN ARCH — MOORISH PALACE. 



GARDEN RESTAURANT. 

Official Guide No. 38. No admission fee. 

This is a pleasant and satisfying resting and refreshment place, where 
orders are filled promptly and at moderate prices. Good music is fur- 
nished and guests are treated with civility and consideration. 



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TURKISH CARPET WEAVING EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 39. No admission fee. 

The visitor is now entering what, properly speaking, is the Turkish 
Village, but the arrangement is such that the exhihits must be treated 
separately. Rohert Levy is manager of the entire Turkish concession. 
The building occupied by the carpet weaving exhibit was originally 
intended for a mosque. Turkish men and women are engaged in weav- 
ing rugs and carpets, which are offered for sale. 



TURKISH SEDAN CHAIRS. 

Official Guide No. 40. Make special terms. 

The chairs are of the style in use in England and America at the 
close of the last century. They are carried by Turks, whose swinging 
gait gives a pleasant motion to the chair. They are patronized mostly 
for the novelty of the thing. 



RESTAURANT AND DANCE HALL. 

Official Guide No. 41. No admission fee to Restaurant. To Dance Hall, 25 cents. 
Turkish male and female performers give interesting exhibitions of 
native dances, etc. 



BEDOUIN ARAB CONCERT HALL. 

Official Guide No. 42. Admission fee, 15 cents. 

A Sheik and family and part of a tribe of Bedouin Arabs give en- 
tertainments of a peculiar character. Worthy of a visit. 



TURKISH CAFE. 

Official Guide No. 43. No admission fee. 

Here everything in the refreshment line is served in true Constan- 
tinople style. The prices are moderate. 



PERSIAN TENT. 

Official Guide No. 44. Fee, 25 cents. 

A Persian fortune teller tells you all about your past, present and fu- 
ture, in true oriental fashion. The tent, it is claimed, once belonged to 
the Shah of Persia. It is richly embroidered. 



TURKISH BAZAR. 

Official Guide No. 45. No admission fee. 

Contains about forty booths where articles of Turkish and Orienta 
manufacture generally are displayed and offered for sale. The visitor 
will have an inteiesting time driving bargains with the natives. Beauti 
ful and useful souvenirs may be obtained here. 



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TURKISH THEATER. 

Official Guide No. 46. Admission fee, 50 cents. 

Sixty-five men, women and children form the theatrical company. 
These were gathered from Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Samaria, 
Damascus, Beyrout, Lebanon, Aleppo, Constantinople and Smyrna! 
Besides these there are many Gypsies and Bedouins. 1 hey produce 
comedy and tragedy and show oriental engagements, weddings, recep- 
tions, dances, funerals, merry-makings, battles and scenes from every 
phase of life. Two' languages are used the Arabic and Turkish. 
Every musical instrument of oriental type, ancient and modern, is 
utilized. The building is an oriental one. The exterior is finished in 
domes, arches, gates and windows in the style of the East. The interior 




TURKISH THEATER. 



scenery, mural decorations, etc., are fashioned after the most elegantly 
furnished houses in Damascus. Cost of the theater, $10,000. 



BERNESE ALPS PANORAMA. 

Official Guide No. 47. Admission fee, 50 cents. 

Presented in regular cycloramic form. The painting represents 
two years work by the artists Burnand, Furet and Baudboy, of Geneva. 
The spectator is supposed to be on the Maennlichen and looking out 
over towering peaks and nestling valleys within a radius of thirty 
miles. Ranged around him are the crests of the Jungfrau, Shreck- 
horn, Jura and Thun. The portrayal is very perfect. Away below the 
spectator, nestling at the base of the height, may be seen a village sur- 
rounded by pastures filled with flocks of sheep, dimly outlined against 
the grassy background. From the inner platform, which represents 

The flaennlichen — the culminating point north of the Wengernalp — 
the looker-on sees at one glance the fairy panorama of the Bernese 
Alps. As in a dream he has been carried up in the pure and serene 



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atmosphere of these high regions, in the very center of Switzerland, 
more than 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. At the foot of these 
gigantic mountains, hanging over the abyss, he has the sensation even 
of giddiness. The visitor has thus accomplished without fatigue the 
ascent of the Wengernalp, a triangular group of mountains rising 
between the valley of Lauterbrunnen and that of Grindelwald. Leav- 
ing behind us these shepherds loaded with their rustic utensils, these 
chalets glittering in the sunshine, the herds of cows and goats, we 
arrive through forests of fir trees at the village lying in the valley wa- 
tered by the White Lutschine. It is 

Grindelwald, a village partly destroyed last year by a terrible fire. 
Climbing the opposite slope we reach the Pass of the Great Scheidegg 
beyond which tower the Urirothstock and the Titli^, which close this 
magnificent prospect. On the right appear the Royal Highnesses of 
the Alpine cycle. First 

The Wetterhorn (Peak of Storms), the rocky bulk of which opens 
to let a passage down the valley to the Upper glacier of Grindelwald; 
then the Schreckhorn (Mount of Terror) from which runs the lower 
glacier. The melting of these masses of ice gives birth to the White 
Lutschine which runs through the valley of Grindelwald. Here is the 
Eiger, like an immense pyramid. Then the Moench with its enormous 
steps of ice, a white monk indeed, with his hood drawn over his brow, 
and not far, in its unapproachable solitude, the majestic Jungfrau more 
than 12,000 feet high. The ascent of 

The Jungfrau, far more dangerous than that of the Mount Blanc, 
was accomplished for the first time in 181 1 by ^ome mountaineers of 
the neighborhood, then in 1841, for scientific purposes, by the illustrious 
Agassiz, and Professor Desor, both from Neuchatel in Switzerland. 
And one after the other appear the Silberhorn (Silver point), the Mit- 
taghorn (South point), the Morgenhorn (Morning point), the Breithorn, 
the Tschingelhorn, and, far beyond, the Blumlisalp hardly visible other- 
wise than like a delicate vapor. And on every side other peaks rise to 
the sky, evoking to the mind the gigantic ruins of the most distant and 
mysterious ages of the world. All these white masses are irisated 
with the subtle shades of blue and pink. We must remember it is 
eleven A. M.; the mo ntain which retains longer than the plain the im- 
pression of the night has still all the freshness of the morning hours. 
On the right, as a canal between these immense walls of rock, is the 
deep valley of Lauterbrunnen, where runs and roars the foamy torrent 
of the Black Lutschine. From the opposite rock, the Staubach falls 
like a beautiful white scarf. 

The Village of Lauterbrunnen lies at the end of the valley and, 
above the rocks, the village of Murren is hardly discernible in the 
middle of misty forests. Immediately above, and not far from the 
Blumlisalp, we see the Schilthorn and, more on the right, the Rothorn 
with its red jagged rocks clearly defined against the blue sky. Finally 
the pyramidal mass of the Niesen rises, reflected like a large emerald 
in the blue mirror of the lake of Than. On the other side is the 
pleasant summer resort of Beatenberg. Far away, at the extreme 
limit of the horizon, the blue line of the Jura stretches farther than 
the eye can reach in 

The Bernese Country. At the end of the lake, in a misty atmos- 
phere, the first houses of the little town of Thun. If we look far down 
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Lutschine rivers, which give their name to the valley, the Lutschinen- 
thal. As we follow its course, the plain of Interlaken appears to our 
eyes, between the lake of Thun and that of Brienz. Interlaken ! the 
rendezvous of tourists from the whole world, with its fine hotels and 
splendid view of the Jungfrau. Before ending, let us mention, on the 
other side of the Grindelwald valley, the green slopes of the Schei- 
nigge platte and the Faulhorn, the summits of which are a prodigious 
piling up of rocks, colored now a delicate shade of lilac by the oblique 
rays of the sun. From the Faulhorn the landscape changes and the 
spectator, returning to his starting point, finds himself on the sunny 
alp of the Great Scheidegg, having thus gone from the top of the 
Maennlichen all round the horizon. The paths down to the valley run 
so gaily through slopes blooming with rhododendron (alpine roses), 
aconite and blue gentians that every moment one feels tempted to 
follow them and stretch oneself on the short grass under the fresh 
shelter of fir trees, with the great panorama of the Alps all round. 



VIENNA CAFE AND NATATORIUM. 

Official Guide No. 48. No admission fee to Cafe. To Natatorium, 50 cents. 

In connection with the cafe is a concert hall, where variety enter- 
tainments are sometimes given. Music is furnished free, however, in 
connection with the restaurant. The dining room in the second story 
is quite popular, the place being conducted in a strictly first-class man- 
ner, while prices are reasonable. The cafe on the first floor is also 
first-class. 'I here are private dining rooms in the towers and elsewhere 
for the reception of private parties. The Natatorium is conducted after 
the usual fashion. 



JAHORE VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 40. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

Space in this vicinity was allotted, on both sides of the Plaisance, to 
what is known as "The Dutch Settlement," properly speaking, a col- 
lection of South Sea Island villages, from the islands originally settled 
by the Dutch. The villages contain about eighty dwellings and 300 
natives from the islands of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Jahore, Samoa, Fiji, 
New Zealand, Tonga and the Sandwich group. The settlement occu- 
pies 200,000 square feet. The Javanese have the largest village in the 
settlement. (See Javanese village.) The Jahore village is one of the 
number and the last to be ready for the reception of visitors. 



SOUTH SEA ISLAND VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 50. Admission fees: To Village, 10 cents; to Theatre, 25 cents. 
Here are collected nations of Sumatra, Borneo, Samoa, Fiji, New 
Zealand, Tonga and Hawaii It is a village of huts, somewhat similar 
to the Javanese, except that the latter live more neatly and are a much 
more agreeable-looking people. The natives make trinkets and carry 
on their peculiar industries. Here is located also a Hawaiian theatre, 
the performances being of an indescribable character, but worth the 
visitor's attention. Souvenirs are offered for sale. 



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HAGENBECK ANIMAL SHOW. 

Official Guide No. 51. Admission fees: To Animal Show, according to location of 
seat, 25 cents to $1.00. To Museum, 25 cents. Cafe free. 

This attraction is properly called " Hagenbeck's Zoological Arena," 

and is arc-production of Herr Hagenbeck's famous menagerie in Berlin. 

The building occupied cost $106,000. In addition to the menagerie 

a circus modeled on the plan of the Coliseum of Rome is includ d, with 
a capacity of 5,000. The front of the building is taken up by r staurants 
and cafes, with popular prices, on the first and second floors and on the 
roof. The second floor on the west side is used as a sample room of the 
collective German wine exhibit. Hagenbeck is renowned as the mosl 
successful animal trainer and as the largest dealer in wild animals, hav- 
ing contracts to supply all the zoological gardens of the world. He has 
achieved wonderful success in training and taming the most ferocious 
animals know n lo man. 




HAGENBECK PAVILION. 

The Menagerie shows to visitors a large collection of lions of all 
sizes and ages, numbering twenty-two, one Polar bear, Thibet bears, 
Malay bears, a collection of the finest boarhounds ever brought to this 
country, a number of panthers, leopards and Bengal tigers. The large 
monkey show and parrot exhibit comprises the rarest varieties ever col- 
lected. There is a large 

Ethnological Exhibit comprising New Caledonia, British Colum- 
bia, South Sea Islands, Africa, etc., containing a vast number of imple- 
ments, household goods, arms, etc., of the nations of these countries, and 
a tine collection of hunting trophies of the hunting expeditions of Carl 
Hagenbeck in all parts of the world, and an aquarium representing the 
Indian Ocean with all the wonderful plants, fishes, etc., in the condition 
they live in. 

The Arena serves the purpose of showing the wonderful training 
which Hagenbeck's animals possess, and the complete control their 
trainers have over them. No visitor to the fair should fail to witness 
these wonderful performances. There are four every day. The most 

Prominent features of these performances are the trained lions on 
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great group of twenty animals at a time in the arena introduced by Mr. 
Mehrmann, and Hagenbeck's five Nubian giant lions introduced by Prof. 
Darling, just arrived from the Cirque d'hiver at Paris, France. Exhi- 
bitions of this kind (but never in such perfection as are to be seen here) 
have met with the most phenomenal success in the great European 
cities, Paris and London, etc. Another great curiosity, which alone 
pays the visit, is the dwarf elephant "Lilly," which is the smallest ele- 
phant ever known or seen before. Before the departure from Europe 
Miss Lilly was, at the Emperor's request, taken to the imperial palace at 
Berlin and exhibited to the imperial princes. 



VENICE=flURANO GLASS EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 52. Admission fee, 25 cents. 

The Venice-Murano Company, of Venice, Italy, was established in 
1866, and has been awarded highest prizes at all expositions since that 
time. Occupies a building of the Italian Gothic style, richly inlaid with 
glass mosaics. It has a complete furnace for the purpose of producing 
all sorts of fancy blown glass, besides a workshop for monumental dec- 
orative mosaic work. About thirty Venetian artists attend to the vari- 
ous processes of this most interesting industry, just as if they were in 
their own island of Murano, where the Industry of glass-blowing has 
been going on since the nth century. Here is blown fancy glass of 
every description, vases, chandeliers, table-sets in every color and style, 
imitations of the old Phoenician, Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, 
medieval renaissance and modern glass. Its chronological display is 
composed of the very best product of the company. There is exhibited 
in the building reproductions of the most famous glasses known, in- 
cluding cameo bowls, christian plates, oriental enameled glass, filigrees, 
etc. This is one of the most interesting exhibits in the Plaisance. 
Glassware manufactured in the presence of visitors is sold and a small 
souvenir is presented. The admission fee is deducted from the price of 
articles purchased. 

DIVING BELL EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 53. Admission fee, 10 cents. 

An interesting and instructive illustration of the practical use of the 
diving bell and sub-marine armor. The operations of the diver may be 
witnessed in the water. The air is supplied by a hand-pump, operated 
over the doorway outside the' building. 



OLD TIMES' LOG CABIN. 

Official Guide No. 54. Admission fee, 10 cents. 

A reproduction, both as to exterior and interior, of the American 
pioneer's home of other days. Inside there are many interesting relics 
and curiosities. Worthy of a visit. Refreshments are served. 



NEW ENGLAND FARflER'S DINNER. 

Official Guide No. 55. No admission fee. 

This is a restaurant in which beans form the principal article of diet. 



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COLORADO GOLD HINIING EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 56. Admission fee. 10 cents. 

Here is a representation in miniature, of course, of a great mine in 
full operation, showing" miners at work in the different shafts, levels, 
slopes, crosscuts, etc. It is endorsed by the Denver Mining Exchange, 
by the Colorado School of Mining, and many leading citizens. An' in- 
teresting exhibit. 



FRENCH FRUIT TREES. 

Official Guide No. 57. No admission fee. 

Under direction of the Horticultural departments of the Exposition, 
as is all the nursery space in this vicinity. The French have a large 
variety of fruit trees trained in all forms, fan, espalier pyramidal, etc., 
which, though common with the French fruit growers, is quite novel to 
the average American. Here trees in orchards, as a rule, are given all 
the room they need and no attempt made to confine them within certain 
bounds, merely thinning the branches occasionally, but there trees are 
trained to suit themselves to many different conditions of soil, climate 
or location. 



WISCONSIN EVERGREEN EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 58. No admission fee. 

Under direction of the Horticultural Department of the Exposition 
everything pertaining to nursery work is here shown in great variety. 
One firm has a fine variety of evergreen seedlings, showing all the 
methods of starting them in the seed beds, of transplanting to nursery 
rows, and lastly to the permanent situation on the lawn. Others show 
decidious and other trees planted and arranged in many very pretty 
designs for lawn and garden work. 



WISCONSIN CRANBERRY HARSH. 

Official Guide No. 59. 

A cranberry marsh is shown, with several varieties growing and 
bearing, which will be interesting to many. This fruit only succeeds 
in certain localities, and the thousands of people who daily eat the 
"cranberry tart" little know how the product from which il is made 
grows. 



ELGIN PLANT EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 60. No admission fee. 

A splendid collection of plaiUs. In addition to those noted on either 
side of the Plaisance there are representative displays from other sec- 
tions and countries. Mexico's exhibit of plants of coffee and tea, as 
well as native shrubs, attracts a good deal of attention. The nursery 
exhibit will show thousands of people how trees are grown previous to 
their being transplanted to parks, lawns and gardens. 

[These nursery exhibits are under the special charge of Mr. Charles Wright, Superin- 
tendent of Pomology, World's Columbian Exposition.] 



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ORANGE JUDD FARHER WEED EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 61. No admission fee. 

This is a very novel and certainly a most instructive exhibit. It is 
intended to show here everything which the American farmer should 
strike with the hoe. The exhibit was prepared at a great deal of ex- 
pense and an unceasing amount of labor by the office editors of the 
Orange. Judd Farmer, and has been highly complimented by a great 
many prominent men. Over 135 different varieties of weeds are shown 
in actual growth. These wt re for the most part raised from seed in 
greenhouses, thence set out in cold frames, and finally transplanted to 
the exhibit. Each variety is labeled with its common and scientific 
name. 

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY'S EXHIBIT. 

Official Guide No. 62. No admission fee. 

The Adams Express Company presents to the visitor a modern ex- 
press office, fully equipped for business. This is the only company on 




THE ADAMS EXPRESS COS OFFICES. 



the grounds having its own building. In the window is the oldest relic 
of the express business, a sign used by Adams & Co. Express, in 1S40, 
in the office No. 6 Court street, Boston. At that time express runs ar- 



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rived very irregularly, and numerous inquiries were made as to when 
the express would be in. The sign was placed outside the office on a 
lamp-post, immediately upon the arrival of runs, reading thus: "Adams 
& Co. Express — Arrived." This sign is prized very highly by the Adams 
Express Company of to-day, the oldest and greatest in existence. Here 
is also a chair that has traveled the world over, bearing labels from 
almost every place of importance reached by rail or water. 



LADY ABERDEEN'S IRISH VILLAGE. 

Official Guide No. 63. Admission fee, 25 cents. A small fee is charged to Blarney 
Castle and also for the privilege of kissing the Blarney Stone. 

This is the exhibit of the Irish Industries Association, Isa' el, the 
Countess of Aberdeen, president. Although last on the Official Guide 
list, it is in reality the first and most important exhibit that presents it- 
self to the visitor after passing under the Stony Island Avenue subway 
from the exposition proper. In other words, it is the first exhibit to the 
left. 

The entrance to the Irish Village has been coped from the north 
doorway to the chapel built by Cormac, the bishop king of Munster, in 
the early part of the twelfth century, which forms part of the wonder- 
ful group of ecclesiastical buildings, the ruins of which stand on the 
Rock of Cashel (the w r ord is derived from caiseal — a stone fort), the 
County Tipperary, and of which a fine complete model will be found 
within the village. 

The Doorway chosen dv the architect, Mr. McDonnell, for the en- 
trance of the Irish village is a singularly fine one. It is round-arched, 
of five orders, springing from detached shafts, and is surmounted by a 
high, projecting canopy, divided into panels by perpendicular bands, 
enriched with zigzag mouldings, and rosettes, and carved heads. Pass- 
ing through this door, w r ith all its associations of the old days of the 
McCarthys, the O'Conors, and the O'Brians, we enter the cool clois- 
ters of tie far-famed 

Muckross Abbey, with its tree standing in the midst, bringing to 
our mind not only the thought of the beautiful, picturesque ruins from 
which this reproduction is copied, surrounded by its graves of the heroes 
of bygone days, but also of the exquisite scenery of the surrounding 
district of Killarney, its mountains, its lakes, its islands. But the Irish 
Village at the World's Fair is nothing if it is not practical, and the visi- 
tor can not be allowed to muse in the cloisters of Muckross; and so, 
having provided himself with a guide, he is ushered into the first of the 
cottages where the inhabitants of this busy little community ply their 
industries. And here over the turf fire over which the potato pot is 
hanging can be watched the making of many different kinds of 

Lace and Crotchet=WOrk which is manufactured in Ireland. Ellen 
Aher, trained at the Presentation Convent at Youghal, County Cork, 
makes the beautiful needle-point lace which is so highly prized by those 
who are its happy possessors; Kate Kennedy illustrates the making of 
applique lace as it is done in the cottage homes of Carrickmacross, and 
Mary Flynn does the same for the much admired fine crotchet work 
made by the poor women around Clones, in County Monaghan, and 
which is already much appreciated in America; Ellen Murphy shows 
how the pretty light Limerick lace is made, which is regaining its popu- 
larity since Mrs. Vere O'Brien and other ladies and gentlemen have set 



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to work to improve the designs; Bridget McGinley works at her old- 
fashioned wheel in the next cottage, preparing the wool for Patrick 
Fagan of Donegal to weave into those delightful homespuns whose 
merits have been found out of late years by the fashionable world, as 
well as by the sportsman and athlete; Maggie Dennehy, who talks real 
Irish, also sits near by and shows how Miss Fitzgerald has tavight the 
women of Valencia Island, County Kerry, to earn their livelihood by 
knitting. 

The Dairy. — The "Teach-boinne," or dairy, next engages our atten- 
tion, and here we find Johanna Doherty, Kate Barry, and Maria Con- 
nolly showing us all the delights of a well-trained dairy-maid's profes- 
sion, and what dainty and appetizing results can be turned out by a deft 
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utensils in comparison with the old-fashioned methods, which are also 
illustrated. A great effort has lately been made in Ireland to improve 
and develope the butter-making industry, with very promising results. 
The Hon. Horace Plunkett, M. P., one of the active members of the 
Irish Industries Association, has taken a hand in this work. The three 
dairy-maids at the village have been trained at the Munster Dairy 
School, an excellent institution near Cork, wh^re all branches of scien- 
tific agriculture are taught, to the great benefit of the people. Mary 
Fagan makes torchon lace on a pillow, and Mary Cosgrove from Bag- 
nalstown, where Mrs. Edward Ponsonby has founded a centre for the 
making of embroideries, displays the making of the work to which they 
have been trained; in another of these cottages, with their quaint, old- 



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47 



fashioned furniture and open roof, will be found a photograph store, 
from whence many a memory of Ireland and its beauties can be car- 
ried away. 

The Bog=Oak Carving industry is one well known to the tourist in 

Ireland, and is illustrated in the village, both in process of making and 
in its fully finished state, at the Darra-bochta 'store presided over by 
Miss Goggin, of Dublin, who has also a variety of beautiful specimens 
of the green Gal way marble jewelry. Michael Nicholas, too, shows 
the results that are being reaped from the various wood-carving and 
metal-working classes set on foot in Ireland by the Home Arts and In- 
dustries Association, thus providing a paving and profitable occupation 
for the boys and men, as well as 1or the women and girls. And then 
comes 

Blarney Castle. While the interior of the castle has been set apart 
as for living and sleeping rooms for the village workers, a winding 
staircase is provided for the visitors who desire to kiss 




LADY ABERDEEN S COTTAGE — IRISH VILLAGE. 



The Magic Stone and to get "a view of all Ireland" from the battle- 
ments. There a relief map, kindly loaned by Sir Patrick Keenan, and 
made by Mr. T. W. Conway, B. A., of Dublin, will give to visitors an 
accurate idea of the surface and extent of the country. Any bad re- 
sults from the fatigue of the ascent and descent have been provided 
against by the "Tigosda," presided over by Mr. Ryan at the foot of the 
staircase, where he is entirely willing to refresh the hungry and thirsty 
climbers. They will then feel prepared to visit the "Sheeppa," where 
Miss Mayne, Miss Robinson and Miss Keane will show specimens of 
all manner of cottage industries, and not only lace and embroideries of 
many kinds, but hosiery and under-clothing, woolens and baskets from 
Letterfrack, and we know not what besides. But the round is not yet 
complete. There is 

The Village Music Hall, where Miss Josephine Sullivan, the youth- 
ful professor of the harp, from the Dublin Academy of Music, dis- 
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touch such as would surely hring joy to the spirit of her patriot 
father, the late A. M. Sullivan; and in company with her we find many 
sweet singers of Ireland's national airs and, needless to say, the Irish 
piper and the jig dancers. And then, too, there is Tara's Hall, where 
Mr. Edmond Johnson's (of Dublin) interesting Celtic jewelry is to be 
seen in the making and in the finished state— models of the Tara brooch 
and the fibula and other delicate emblems which have been reproduced 
by this gentleman's zeal on behalf of the antiquities of his country. 
The model of the ancient Celtic cross erected in a grassy corner of 
the village square, the loan from Messrs. Colles' marble works at Kil- 
kenney, must also be visited, bringing to mind the fact of the early 
civilization and art of Ireland, thus showing, even in those far-away 
days, how full of skill, delicate refinement and artistic taste were her 
people. Lyra-ne-grena, or "The Sunny Nook," is the name which has 
been given to the cottage standing opposite to the castle, where 

Lady Aberdeen has her abode when at the village, and in whose 
rooms may be found specimens of old Irish furniture, a lovely mantel- 




THE IRISH VILLAGE — BLARNEY CASTLE. 



piece from an old Dublin house, old Irish prints, books on Ireland pre- 
sented by Lady Ferguson, Miss Margaret Stokes, and Mrs. O'Connell, 
and by Messrs. Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, for Lady Aberdeen's village 
library. In Lady Aberdeen's absence, 

firs. Peter White, the widow of the late Honorable Secretary of 
the Irish Industries Association, who organized this village, and whose 
loss is so deeply lamented, acts as her representative and lives in this 
cottage, which is copied from one at at Rushbrook, near Queenstown. 
Before leaving finally, a visit must be paid to 

The Village Museum, where a very fine set of fine photographs of 
Irish antiquities, by Lord Dunraven, arranged and published by Miss 
Margaret Stokes, the well known antiquarian, are hung; besides many 
objects of interest to irish hearts which will be lent from time to time 
during the World's Fair. And surely, surely it is not necessary to 
suggest that no visitor with Irish sympathies will depart without having 
set foot on Irish turf, and without carrying away a native blackthorn 
as a memento of this bit of "Ould Ireland" in the New World ! 



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